Adult and child malaria mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey.

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Published in Lancet on October 20, 2010

Authors

Neeraj Dhingra1, Prabhat Jha, Vinod P Sharma, Alan A Cohen, Raju M Jotkar, Peter S Rodriguez, Diego G Bassani, Wilson Suraweera, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Richard Peto, Million Death Study Collaborators

Author Affiliations

1: National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi, India.

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